Is Patagonia a good company to work for in 2026? A verified read

Patagonia's job board listed 36 open postings when read at 21:54 UTC on October 5, 2026, 19 of them at its Ventura headquarters (Patagonia job board). The company says it has offered on-site child care at Ventura since 1983 (Patagonia) and gives regular U.S. employees up to 18 paid activism hours a year (Patagonia). Its report shows net sales falling from $1.568 billion in fiscal 2023 to $1.47 billion in fiscal 2025 (Patagonia), and in September 2024 it said goodbye to 41 colleagues, about one percent of its workforce, in a restructuring (Patagonia Works) that Retail Dive reported was at its Ventura headquarters (Retail Dive).

Under the ownership change Patagonia announced on September 14, 2022, the Patagonia Purpose Trust owns all of the voting stock, 2% of the total, and the Holdfast Collective all of the non-voting stock, 98% (Patagonia Works). Patagonia's report says the two share a trustee, Four Seas, LLC, whose board includes the Chouinard family, one independent member and Greg Curtis, the Holdfast Collective's executive director (Patagonia Works; Patagonia). In his 2022 letter, founder Yvon Chouinard called taking the company public another path ("What a disaster that would have been") and wrote, "Instead of 'going public,' you could say we're 'going purpose'" (Patagonia).

Chief executive Ryan Gellert wrote on September 30, 2024 that "while we remain profitable, we are vulnerable to the same economic headwinds many companies in our industry are facing" (Patagonia Works). The company's November 2025 report says "the 2025 fiscal year was tough" (Patagonia). Business Insider reported in November 2024 that an internal memo from director of philosophy Vincent Stanley described the first sales decline in the company's history; the article carries no company comment on the memo (Business Insider).

Patagonia's report lists net sales of $1,568 million in fiscal 2023, $1,500 million in fiscal 2024 and $1,470 million in fiscal 2025 (Patagonia). It says the board decides twice a year whether the company can afford a dividend, after reinvesting in the business and reserving enough cash to operate independently (Patagonia), and that the Holdfast Collective has received $180 million since it was founded in August 2022 (Patagonia). Holdfast Trust, the largest of the five trusts in the Collective with 77.7% of any dividend, reported $62.2 million in dividends from Patagonia Works for the tax year ended December 31, 2024 (IRS Form 990), up from $38.9 million for 2023 (IRS Form 990).

Patagonia's November 2025 report counts more than 160 stores worldwide, 106 of them owned, more than 5,700 wholesale partner locations and business in 45 countries (Patagonia), with 61% of fiscal 2025 sales in the U.S. (Patagonia). The report says Worn Wear resold 212,000 products for annual revenue of $13M that year (Patagonia). The report says Patagonia approaches growth conditionally (Patagonia), and that paid advertising on Meta platforms once generated significant sales for it but it joined the Stop Hate for Profit boycott of Facebook in 2020 and continues it (Patagonia).

Ryan Gellert is chief executive officer (Patagonia Works); the board named him CEO of Patagonia Works, the holding company, in a release dated September 24, 2020 (Patagonia Works). Jenna Johnson is president (Patagonia Works). Patagonia announced in March 2026 that Claire Chouinard, daughter of founder Yvon Chouinard, was taking over as board chair from Charles Conn (Patagonia Works).

In June 2024 Patagonia told 90 of the 255 people on its remote customer-experience team to move within 60 miles of one of seven hub cities or leave, and a spokesman said most had opted to leave with severance (Fortune; Pacific Coast Business Times). On September 30, 2024 chief executive Ryan Gellert said Patagonia was saying goodbye to 41 colleagues, about one percent of its workforce, in a restructuring (Patagonia Works) that Retail Dive reported was at its Ventura headquarters (Retail Dive).

Workers at its Reno outlet store voted 9 to 5 to join UFCW Local 711, and the NLRB closed the case with a certification of representative on March 1, 2024 (NLRB). Workers at its SoHo store in New York voted 12 to 0 on March 21, 2026, with 6 challenged ballots that did not affect the result, to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and the NLRB certified the union on April 1 (NLRB). On September 22, 2026 the NLRB denied a request by Great Pacific Iron Works, Patagonia's retail company, for review of the decision directing the SoHo election (NLRB).

Patagonia says it has offered on-site child care at its Ventura headquarters since 1983 and at its Reno distribution center since 2016, for children from 8 weeks to 5 years (Patagonia), and that it has provided bail coverage (where applicable) since 2016 for employees who first attend nonviolent direct action training (Patagonia). It said in June 2022 that it covers the cost of medical insurance for all part-time and full-time employees and offers paid pregnancy disability and parental bonding leave (Patagonia Works). It says it has closed its U.S. offices, stores and warehouse for every federal election since 2016 (Patagonia Works), with paid time off, per its November 2022 release (Patagonia Works).

Of the 19 postings based at Patagonia's Ventura headquarters when read at 21:54 UTC on October 5, 2026, 15 described a hybrid schedule with Tuesday to Thursday on-site, 1 of which, a fixed-term role, also offered remote work; 2 required on-site work at the Ventura office, 1 said only that it was hybrid, and 1 stated no work mode (Patagonia job board).